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    BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
   (URL) BrickJournal 9 is now available for downloading through its (URL) TwoMorrows.> It's 148 pages of reports and instructions, with event reports of 1000steine-Land, Brickworld, and LEGOFest. There's also interviews with a couple of Star Wars (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !! 
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Jean-Marc Nimal
     In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Joe Meno wrote: ... (...) ... Joe, On (URL) that page> there's a (URL) to a pdf with the issue contents>, but that link seems to be broken at the moment - you might want to sort that out with TwoMorrows. Hope it (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Jean-Marc Nimal wrote: (snip) (...) Thanks! I sent the broken link to them! In the meantime, here's a list of articles: People Nannan Zhang Kyle Peterson/BrickForge Eric Borrega, Microbuilder Henning Birkeland, (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Melody Krützfeldt
     (...) **cut** (...) Marvin Hall is a female AFOL? ;) **cut** (...) Yeah, tell me about it :) Groovy, Joe! Mel (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Richie Dulin
      (...) And female AFOLs don't count as people? Cheers Richie (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Richie Dulin
     (...) And female AFOLs don't count as people? Cheers Richie (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —James Trobaugh
     (...) No need to apologize to me, I think it's great that a print edition is going to be available. Great news Joe! jt (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Lewis Valentine
     (...) No need to apologize here either! I just can't wait to recieve that first issue! Great Work! (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Gianluca Morelli
     This is a bad new. You instantly loose most of your non-american readers, as we aren't going to pay an intercontinental shipping for our issues. Thanks for your great previous work, Gianluca (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     (...) Wow. I'm sorry that you feel this way. I have done the best I can to make things work out for as many people as possible. There are other options that I am looking at to provide issues to everyone, and I am aware of the audiences overseas. But (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Gianluca Morelli
      (...) Hi Joe, I know that when you switch from fan-made stuff to "serious" stuff you got to make hard choices (especially for money troubles), but not having a distribution in Europe is a major issue. It's not pleasant to pay 2/3 times what (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allan Bedford
       (...) I reread the specifics for the first print issue: (URL) it certainly seems to indicate that the .pdf version will still be available for $3.95. Which is even cheaper that what you thought would be fair. :) At least, that's the way I'm reading (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Anders Isaksson
       (...) That looks good, but for the moment, twomorrows don't even process orders from my part of the world. It's still plenty of time left until February 2008, so things might change. What's wrong with using lulu.com? They have printing works on this (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
       (...) That is a bug that the webmaster is looking into - this has happened with the free download, although the error message was false. (...) Try and print a magazine one at a time, and you'll see pretty clearly. Joe (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Anders Isaksson
       (...) Sounds even better! So the plan is to be able to sell 'world wide' already at the start in February? (My interest will only be in the electronic PDF version) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
       (...) That is the plan. To make this happen takes months to implement - not in printing, but in coordination. BrickJournal already has one distributor with Diamond Comics, and is waiting for decisions on others. These will be announced as I recieve (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Luca Giannitti
       (...) This is not the only problem. Think a second about this: how many Europeans would still write articles for a US Magazine which is hard/expensive to get in Europe? Brickjournal will loose not just readers but also writers... Cheers, Luca (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Ted Godwin
       (...) I don't understand what you are saying. It is neither hard nor expensive to pay $3.95 (that is what, 2.78 Euros at today's rate?) to get the pdf version. That is what you have been getting all along. He had to start charging something for the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Luca Giannitti
       (...) The PDF is not expensive, it is expensive to get the printed issue (ok specialty magazines are expensive, I know) but the worst thing is that Europeans AFOL cannot buy at all the printed BJ because it is sold only within US. Luca (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
      
           Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
       (...) That may not true. I am working on that, however, I have no definites. I won't announce until then. Joe (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
      In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Gianluca Morelli wrote: (chop) (...) Gianluca, The issues will be sold online as a PDF. I understand your frustration, and believe me, I am trying to find a solution. I can't offer free PDFs from now on, though. Joe (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Anders Isaksson
      (...) Have you checked with lulu.com? They do printing in Europe when delivering to Europe, so the shipping charges might be lower. OTOH, I don't know what that would mean for the prize of the magazine, and your margins... (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
      (...) I have - lulu copies have been available for some time (although those will have to be pulled off too). You can too. Prices on demand are very high. Like I said, I have looked at as many options as I can. Joe (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Saso Tomat
     (...) What about printing in Europe and Australia? Saso (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Ross Crawford
     (...) Excellent work again Joe, I've only had a chance for a quick browse, but it looks top notch as usual, well done to all of you. (...) "Sorry, we do not accept payments from your region at this time." That's gonna make a whole bunch of people (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Erik L. Knopp
      (...) I think that message might be coming up for everybody when downloading #9. I got it with a US address. (Either that or TwoMorrows has restrictions within the US, also.) Erik (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Jim DeVona
      (...) I concur. I live in New York state, and I received the same message. My advice is to abstain from alarm. Bley, Brickshelf, BrickJournal - the end is always nigh for the unhappy AFOL! Anyway - as always, phenomenal work, Joe! Congrats to you, (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Ross Crawford wrote: (snip) (...) Hm. That is a definite bug. I have sent this to the publisher to get this fixed. Thanks for the head-up and documentation of the bug. Joe (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Patrick Bégin
     (...) Something else to fix : Single Feb 2008 issue = 11$us + 2$us for canada delivery. I would say that's fair. Subscription for four issues = 32$us (nice discount) + 18$us for canada delivery... It does not add up... (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Patrick Bégin
     (...) Let me clarify myself... First issues special = 11$us for USA, 11$us + 2$us for Canada. This is "relatively" fair : 18.2% surcharge for USPS because it is sent international. Subscription = 32$us for USA, 50$us for Canada. 56.25% more for USPS (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Keith Goldman
     (...) Joe, congrats on taking BrickJournal to a new level. I signed up for my subsription today, and I know of at least two other credit-whores who are about too do the same. You rock. -Keith (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —William R. Ward
     (...) Wait one cotton-pickin' minute here. You mean the old issues are no longer free?!!!????!! I totally understand about charging for new content starting with issue 10. But issues 1-8 were released without any indication that they would ever not (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, William R. Ward wrote: (snip) (...) I did bring this up here: (URL) posted a reply here: (URL) I stated my position here: (URL) BrickJournal is to be a sustainable enterprise, I will need to make as many revenue (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX) ! 
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —William R. Ward
     (...) That thread was talking about the new issues (from issue 10 onward). I'm talking about the existing issues that were previously made available for free. Once something's been released for free, it seems wrong to me to start charging for it (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Ted Godwin
      (...) Really? I have received free coffee, chocolates, cable channels, newspapers, magazines, laundry detergent, phone services and dozens more goods and services. Eventually the free trial period ends and if you want access to the goods and (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     (...) This was a decision that was made after it was pointed out to me by the publisher that a free issue in any form will undercut any selling issue. As for the revenue itself, it will be going to subsidizing print compendiums of back issues. I am (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Jason Whittenburg
     Joe, congratulation on taking BrickJournal to print. I know from working with other authors how hard that process can be. I signed up for my subscription today because BrickJournal is truly great! It is my opinion that it is truly stands with other (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Anders Isaksson
     (...) Why do I have to enter at least two characters for a state? I don't live in any state, I live in a city in a country. What use can you have of two faked state letters? And definitely don't ask for my telephone number! No way I'd give that away (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)  
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     (...) Since all of these are looked at after entry, the fake letters should scrub themselves out. (...) Well, you solved that one, so I won't comment on that. (...) Actually we do want to sell and distribute worldwide, however shipping does pose a (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Andrew Cross
      Out of curiousity, I found TwoMorrow's comic products at MileHighComics.com. Will BrickJournal be distributed by Diamond Comics? I saw TwoMorrows products listed in their Previews comic ordering catalog. (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
     
          Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
      (...) In a word, yes. BrickJournal will be in the December Previews. Joe (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allister McLaren
     (...) Can't you just continue to offer a PDF version? BTW, trying to charge, even a nominal fee, for products that have been free for some time probably isn't the best PR move. (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Tommy Armstrong
      (...) The way I understand it is that the pdf version will continue to be offered and will still be made available, just at a cost. As far as back issues, if you read them, wouldn't you have downloaded them and saved them to your hard drive? And it (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Timothy Gould
      --snip-- (...) People had the option to get them for free. If they chose not to it's their own silly fault. Tim (who has also drunk free beer but still buys the stuff) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     (...) Probably not, but this is one of decisions I had to make, especially since there is demand toward having printed back issues. Revenue from the back issues will be used to subsidize printing back issue compendiums that are being targeted to (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Luca Giannitti
     (...) Ok, right. But in this case, don't offer a duty-version of the old PDF issues of Brickjournal, sell just printed copies and delete from Internet all (*) the PDF files. Luca (* on Internet the meaning of the word "all" is not the same of the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Scott Wardlaw
     I can't say that I'm terribly upset and that I didn't see this coming. Now that BrickJournal can have real subscribers, the magazine can continue to grow with more advertising. I do hope that the advertising will be cheaper for LEGO based (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.announce, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     (...) It was a matter of time - the biggest challenge has been getting things lined up. (...) I am working on that - there will be a display ad level and a classified ad level. Classified will have a specific section, like any classified section in (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allan Johansen
     (...) A few thoughts: First of all, I'm disappointed that greed has gotten the better of you. Issue one to eight was released free of charge, and should stay free. Secondly, I don't really mind paying for the following issues. That is to say, a few (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
     (...) I'm sorry I disappointed you, although I can pretty much say the comment on greed is a pretty cheap shot. (...) That's actually 34 dollars, and I agree it IS high. And I am working on some solutions. (...) I don't have certificate problems, (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allan Johansen
      "Joe Meno" <jmenomeno@aol.com> wrote in message news:Jq22zo.Mo1@lugnet.com... (...) Greed is a strong word (perhaps too strong in this case), but I'm not sure what other word I can use. I've been doing volunteer work for several clubs / (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Joe Meno
      (...) I have done volunteer work for quite a few things myself and my motivation is because I like to do things. Money does tend to corrupt. However, money is also a resource that makes many things happen. Like printing. And yes I am looking at (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allan Bedford
     (...) When I look at the transition of BrickJournal from free to pay I always try to keep in mind the disaster of Bricks magazine. In order to get to the point of a printed magazine (1) Joe had no choice but to start off free. He had to get people (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)  
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Melody Krützfeldt
      (...) **cut** (...) **cut** Thank you Allan, I don't think too many could put it better than that! I totally agree with your statement, it is the side of the story as I see it too. All good intentions! For others, I am only the European side, and we (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allan Johansen
     (...) But will it work now that people have to pay for it? Are people willing to pay for it? Time will tell... (...) I hadn’t, assuming that they would stay free. Thankfully, a friend had downloaded them. Having to pay for the old issues are (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —James Trobaugh
     (...) Why wouldn't you just give the book away for free? (...) I'm pretty sure that "people not working for free" has been a constant through out time, not just now days. I know that my boss would love it if I worked for free but my mortgage company (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Allan Johansen
     (...) I just knew that someone would ask that. Well, it’s because... (...) ...there’s working for free and there’s working for free. The big difference is that going to work isn’t volunteer work. I go to work because I need the money. Otherwise I (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Mike Petrucelli
     Holy crow was that the most convoluted crap website signup ever. I was constantly reloading pages and getting error messages. That is either a really good sign, (lots of people are signing up for subscriptions as I just did,) or a really bad sign. (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Anders Isaksson
     (...) This is not a problem if your bank/credit card issuer has the "one time card" facility (I don't know what it's really called in English). Each time I use my VISA card on the intenet, I generate a new, unique, card number/expiration time combo, (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
    
         Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Mike Petrucelli
     (...) I just use a card that only has a $400 limit for all internet purchases anyway. I'll watch it like a hawk more on the principle of it than the possible monetary loss. (which would still not be good but its not like that card has a several (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Scott Lyttle
     (...) Joe, as always, good stuff! For those complaining about no more free downloads... As I recall, when issue 1 came out, I heard/read a lot of "any way this can be done in print? It would be great to have a copy of this on my coffee (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)  
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —Melody Krützfeldt
     (...) **cut** Joe, Keep up the good work, there will be many things to over come and that is normal. There will be many people who will show support and many who will not be so happy with things, that too is also normal. (Hopefully when people see (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)  
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —John Cooper
     (...) Congratulations on another great issue, and the launch of the printed version! Two terrific accomplishments! One question regarding mailing to US subscribers: Will issues sent by media mail and/or first class mail be packaged in envelopes or (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
   
        Re: BrickJournal 9 is OUT, as well as other news! —James Wilson
   Congrats, Joe, on making it to the stage where you can say you'll have a paper Lego fan magazine! Having pre-paid as a charter member (or somesuch) of the last such enterprise, I'll wait until I can actually hold an issue in my hands before ponying (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
 

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